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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES \V. ALLEN, OF VALENTINE, NEBRASKA.

TlME-REGlSTER FOR SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,176, dated February10, 1885.

Application filed March 31, 1884.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES \V. ALLEN, 0f Valentine, in the county ofCherry and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and ImprovedTime-Register for Seats, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improvedtime-register for seats, for the purpose of automatically registeringthe time that a seat has been occupied.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement ofparts, as hereina'fter fully described,and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Figure 1 is a front View of a car-seat provided with my improvedtime-register for seats. Fig. 2 is a rear view of my improvedtimeregister for seats. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional elevation of thesame 011 the line .r x in Fig. 2. Fig. t is a detail view.

\Vithin a box or casing, A, a powerful coiled spring, 13, is heldbetween a series of upright rods or thick wires, 0, or in a slottedcasing, and on the upper end of the spring B a plate, D, rests,which isguided by the rods 0, or by the casing of the spring.

From the plate D a rod, E, projects up through an aperture in the top ofthe casing A, and is provided at its upper end with a fork, F, in whicha plate, G, is pivoted,which is secured to the under side of the scat J.The plate G and the prongs of the fork F are pro vided with aperturesfor receiving a key or pintle, H, {or looking the seat J in a horizontalposition on the upper end or the rod A small clock, K, is held in thefront of the casing A, and behind the said clock a horizontally-slidingbar, L, is held in a hanger or block, M, projecting down from the top 01the casing, which bar is provided on the end toward the back of theclock with a projecting pin or needle, N, adapted to be passed throughan aperture in the back of the clock and engage with one of the wheelsof the clock mech- (No model.)

anism, and thereby stop the clock. The opposite end of the bar L isbeveled from the bottom to the top edge and outward, and a shortdistance from the beveled. end one or two shoulders, O, are formed onthe sides of the block, which shoulders are parallel with the end bevelof the said bar. An upright rod, T, is held on one end of or 011 an armof the plate D, and has its upper end beveled parallel with the endbevel of the bar L. A forked prong, I, projects down from the plate G,and is adapted to pass through an aperture in the top of the casing A,and to act on beveled shoulders O of the bar L.

The operation is as follows: Ordinarily the seat is held in a horizontalposition on the upper end of the rod E by the pin H. If a personoccupies a seat, the same is forced down, and the prong I is forcedthrough the opening in the top of the casing,and,acting on the beveledshoulders O of the bar L, forces the bar in the direction of the arrowa, thereby withdrawing the pin N from the clock-work, which is released,and thus starts as soon as the seat is pressed down. If a person rises,the spring B, which has been compressed by forcing down the seat,expandsand forces the plate D upward, causing the upper beveled end of the rodT to act on the outer beveled end of the rod L, thereby moving the saidbar in the inverse direction of the arrow to, and causing the pin N toenter the clock mechanism, engage with one of wheels, and thus stop theclock-work. If the time by the clock K at which the seat was occupied isnoticed, the time that the seat was occupied can be ascertained, as theclock stops as soon as the person rises. Fares in cars, carriages, &c.,can be collected for the time the seat was occupied, and the conductorsand collectors can be fully controlled. If one seat is occupied, theother can be inclined as a head-rest, as shown in Fig. 1, and as thespring B-has such tension that it requires the full weight of a personto compress it the inclined seat will not be depressed. It thetime-register'is not to work,a suitable block or prop is placed betweenthe seat and the seat-frame to prew ent the seat from being forced down.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The combination,withaclock mechanism, avertically-sliding seat, and a spring for pressing the seat upward, of ahorizontally-sliding pin alternately operated by pins on the seat, andsprings for causing it to engage and to be disengaged from the clockmechanism, substantially as herein shown.

2. The combinatioinwith a seat, of a spring for pressing it upward, andsliding bar provided with a pin adapted to be passed into theclock-easing to stop the works, a plate resting on the spring, a prongprojecting upward from the said plate and adapted to press the bartoward the clock, and of a prong projecting down from the under side ofthe seat and adapted to press the said bar in the direction from theclock, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The eo1nbinati0n,with the seat .T, of the spring B, the plate D, thebar Lhaving a beveled end and beveled shoulders O, the pili N, the clockK, the upwardly-projecting prong T on the plate D, and thedownward]y-projecting prong P 011 the seat, substantially as hereinshown and described.

CHARLES W. ALLEN.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY F. LINGLE. lsnnonn lnnsco'rir.

